Norway's Prince To Marry

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December 2, 2000

OSLO, Norway -- Norway's Crown Prince Haakon said Friday that he will marry his girlfriend, Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby, capping an unprecedented royal romance for a single mother who has a son by a former relationship. "We have decided that we will get married on Aug. 25, 2001. . . . We are very much in love," Haakon said at a news conference, sitting beside Tjessem Hoiby. "I proposed and gave her the ring today." Both are 27-year-old students.